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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: My history
    sub title: a memoir of growing up
  name:
    name part: Fraser, Antonia
    name part: 1932-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  genre: Autobiographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    edition: First United States edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 268 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  abstract: "Antonia Fraser's memoir of growing up is not only an attempt to recapture the experiences of her Oxford childhood and youth -- in Shakespeare's phrase, to 'call back yesterday, bid time return.' It is also a chronicle of the progress of her love of history since her first discovery of it as a private pleasure when she was a child in the 1930s--her history, as she believed it to be, for the study of history (as her books subsequently attest) has always been an essential part of the enjoyment of life. When Antonia received as a Christmas present a copy of Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall in 1936, it engendered a lifelong interest in history, firing her emotion to write the story that thirty years later became the globally bestselling Mary Queen of Scots. Antonia's mother, born Elizabeth Harman, was the daughter of a Harley Street doctor; her father, Frank Pakenham, was the second son of the Earl of Longford. With the coming of war, Antonia's happy childhood in the Sussex of Puck of Pook's Hill was succeeded by an evacuation to an Elizabethan manor house near Oxford, which had a profound effect on her imagination. A North Oxford upbringing, including life at the Dragon School, followed, and later a Catholic convent which she attended as a Protestant and emerged as a Catholic. In the meantime, holidays included adventures with relations in Anglo-Ireland at Dunsany Castle and Pakenham Hall, before rather less glamorous work experience as 'Miss Tony' in the hat department of a famous London store. After Oxford University came a job in publishing, a fortunate coincidence for one whose sole ambition was to write--and to write history. Her magical memoir, told with inimitable humor and style, is an unforgettable account of the making of a great narrative historian"--
  table of contents: Prologue : Things I remember -- The sound of bells -- My island story -- Before-the-war -- Hidey holes -- She dragon -- On our bikes -- Girlhood encountered -- Are we really Irish? -- Nice Catholic friends -- Gap year or two -- Bringing myself out -- Oxford Miss -- Jeune fille in publishing -- I am going to marry you! -- Epilogue : Reader, I wrote it.
  note: Antonia Fraser.
  note: "Originally published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson ... London, in 2015" --Title page verso.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Fraser, Antonia
      name part: 1932-
    topic: Childhood and youth
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Fraser, Antonia
      name part: 1932-
    topic: Family
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Fraser, Antonia
      name part: 1932-
    topic: Homes and haunts
  subject:
    topic: Historians
    geographic: Great Britain
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Women historians
    geographic: Great Britain
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Authors, English
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Oxford (England)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
  classification: DA3.F65 A3 2015
  classification: 941.0072/02 B
  identifier: 9780385540100
  identifier: 0385540108
  identifier: 2014044611
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150123
    record change date: 20170928104834.0
    record identifier: in00003597163
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng